[Vision2020] In defense of Donavan

[Phil Nisbet]

Since that particular missive was addressed to me and I took it as the joke 
it was, why is anybody steamed?

Donavan was bright enough to note, what some of you seem to have failed to, 
that I am Jewish and not in any way shape or form a member of the Shrist 
Church or a follower of Doug Wilson.  The same people seem to fail to 
recognize that Sonavan Arnold is not a CCer, he is a Catholic.

What I thik Donavan, and for that matter myself, objects to is religious 
discrimination.  Both Catholics and Jews have been targeted in this nation 
of ours over the years and that tends to make us leary of any assault on 
people solely because of their faith.  Hey, the same folks used to take it 
as a matter of course that no Irish need apply because they were Catholic 
and that nasty old Jews should not even be allowed in the USA.

So while I find Doug Wilson's creed to lack credability, I also find even 
Donavan's Catholic faith to have just as little credability and the 
Neo-Pagan routine of others to be loopy.  IN otherwords, there are very few 
among the community who share my beliefs, but that does not stop me from 
leaving such disagreements at the door in the name of Civility and Comity

And the posting I made about the Future of Moscow is a grand example of the 
lack of Comity here.  Rather than suggest ways that we can all work together 
to increase business and tax bases and protect our principle economic engine 
here, the University of Idaho, any discussion instantly devolves into a mud 
wrestling contest.  Mark Semans is right, this community is stuck in Teenage 
mode and it will continue to lose able people like Mark, Chris Storhok and 
many others until it gets its collective sh-t together.

Phil Nisbet

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